[Cerchio] Male Privilege -

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Author: Tuula Haapiainen
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Subject: [Cerchio] Male Privilege -
ma già lo sono!!
poliglotta!!!

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From: "Jonny Stecchino" <alfaomega60@???>
To: <cerchio@???>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Cerchio] Male Privilege -


> Brava sai l'Inglese, bene!
> adesso prova ad imparare Internet ed Impresa e
> finalmente sarai qualcuno/a
> JS
>
> --- Tuula Haapiainen <Cyberscript@???> ha scritto:
> > Male Privilege - by D. A. ClarkeRicevo e inoltro,
> > anche se mi sembra un po'
> > troppo drammatizzato il tutto...mah, in america si
> > può, suppongo...
> > Tuula
> >
> >
> > MALE PRIVILEGE by D. A. Clarke 1981
> > A poem for men who don't understand what we mean,
> > when we say men have "it."
> >
> > Privilege is simple.
> > Going for a pleasant stroll after dark.
> > Not checking the back of your car as you get in,
> > sleeping soundly,
> > Speaking without interruption
> > and not remembering dreams of rape, that follow you
> > all day,
> > that woke you crying,
> > and Privilege is not seeing your stripped,
> > humiliated body
> > plastered in celebration
> > across every magazine rack.
> > is going to the movies and not seeing yourself
> > terrorized,
> > defamed,
> > battered, butchered
> > seeing something else.
> > Privilege is
> > Riding your bicycle across town without being
> > screamed at
> > or run off the road,
> > not needing an abortion,
> > taking off your shirt on a hot day, in a crowd,
> > not wishing you could type better just in case,
> > not shaving your legs,
> > having a decent job and expecting to keep it,
> > not feeling the boss's hand up your crotch,
> > dozing off on late-night busses,
> > Privilege is being the hero in the TV show not the
> > dumb broad,
> > living where your genitals are not denied
> > knowing your doctor won't rape you.
> > Privilege is
> > being smiled at all day by nice helpful women
> > it is the way you pass judgment on their appearance
> > with magisterial
> > authority,
> > the way you face a judge of your own sex in court
> > and are over-represented in Congress
> > and are not strip searched for a traffic ticket or
> > used as a dart board
> > by your friendly mechanic,
> > Privilege is seeing your bearded face reflected
> > through the history texts
> > not only of your high school days but all your life,
> > not being relegated to a paragraph every other
> > chapter,
> > the way you occupy entire volumes of poetry
> > and more than your share of the couch unchallenged.
> > It is your mouthing smug, atrocious insults at women
> > who blink and change the subject politely
> > Privilege is how seldom the rapist's name appears in
> > the papers
> > and the way you smirk over your PLAYBOY.
> > It's simple really,
> > Privilege means someone else's pain,
> > your wealth is my terror,
> > your uniform is a woman raped to death here, or in
> > Cambodia or wherever
> > wherever your obscene Privilege writes your name in
> > my blood,
> > it's that simple,
> > you've always had it,
> > that's why it doesn't seem to make you sick to your
> > stomach,
> > you have it,
> > we pay for it,
> > now do you understand?
> >
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